[Chaos-l] astronomical instruments mentioned in tonights talk
Tony Rice
rtphokie at gmail.com
Tue Oct 11 20:07:51 EDT 2011
Brahe's mural quadrant
http://www.princeton.edu/~his291/Mural_Quadrant.html
Jantar Mantar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jantar_Mantar
UNESCO page on Jantar Mantar, Jaipur being named a World Heritage site;
http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1338
More photos with some immersive movies at the site.
http://www.jantarmantar.org/
A nice article with some details on how they work:
http://www.jantarmantar.org/Architecture_Science_web.pdf
More good photos:
http://weburbanist.com/2010/02/14/eye-see-astronomical-architecture-of-the-jantar-mantar/
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